07/31/19

Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others. -Brian Jacques

07/30/19

True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments. -Kazuo Koike

07/29/19

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. -Peter Mere Latham

07/26/19

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. -John Stuart Mill

07/25/19

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in. -David Niven

07/24/19

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. -George Orwell

07/23/19

When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. -Robert M. Pirsig

07/22/19

One day you're young with all your fine plans for the future. The next you're in the future and it doesn't look at all the way you thought it would. -Amanda Quick

07/19/19

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future. -Mitt Romney

07/18/19

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

07/17/19

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. -Lily Tomlin

07/16/19

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -John Updike

07/15/19

Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. -Gore Vidal

07/12/19

Some stories are true that never happened. -Elie Wiesel

07/11/19

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have. -Xinran

07/10/19

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. -Malala Yousafzai

07/09/19

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows. -Roger Zelazny

07/08/19

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed. -Markus Zusak

07/05/19

When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each other’s hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection. -Peter Yarrow

07/04/19

On this 4th [of July], look beyond fireworks, parades, and pretentious patriots. Instead, celebrate whistleblowers and lamplighters who warn the people, speak truth to power -- risking their lives and fortunes defending our inalienable rights and independence against those who take our liberties away. -Thomas Drake

07/03/19

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real. -Qiu Xiaolong

07/02/19

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon the circumstances. -Martha Washington

07/01/19

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. -Jules Verne